Vince Cable’s call shows zero tolerance on contracts data

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The number of people employed on zero-hour contracts has come under the
spotlight after the Business Secretary issued a stark warning to the Office
for National Statistics to overhaul the way in which it collects its
information on the contracts.

Vince Cable told the statisticians that he was concerned about the lack of
reliable data on these controversial contracts, in which a person is not
contracted to work a set number of hours and is paid only for those carried
out.

He has asked the ONS to look at how the statistics are collated and described,
to ensure that they